[Dovecot] dovecot and vmailmgr/qmail mailboxes

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Jun 22 05:18:37 EEST 2009


On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 22:24 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 17:26 +0200, Mij wrote:
> > interface supported by dovecot, dovecot snips the mailbox directory  
> > returned by the
> > authentication module at colon characters ':'. 
> ..
> > Of course, it's very desirable to support "." users too. I see that it  
> > would require several
> > changes in the code, but I'd like to hear your opinion on this. What  
> > about
> > - using a different separator than ":", less common and safer. Could  
> > '\0' be one? If not,
> > what about '*'?
> 
> The problem is that mail_location setting uses ":" as the "sub-setting"
> separator. 

Hmm. Although now that I looked at your code, you seem to be using only
HOME. And using ~/ in mail_location should work around any ":" issues.
So what exactly is the problem you're seeing?
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